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Knee Replacement seems OVER THE TOP for reduced cartilage...
Posted on 2/19/18 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 2/19/18 at 5:22 pm
When the cartilage wears out in the knee, it seems a "cartilage substitute" could be inserted and attached, kind of like getting new brake pads on the car. Replacing the entire knee seems to be the one trick orthopedic docs use as their standard job for these knee issues.
Can someone please invent the cartilage substitute? I don't have the free time to do it.
Can someone please invent the cartilage substitute? I don't have the free time to do it.
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Posted on 2/19/18 at 5:23 pm to SabinBear
That doctor has boat and condo fees to pay!
Posted on 2/19/18 at 5:42 pm to SabinBear
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Can someone please invent the cartilage substitute?
Well, they can actually do some cartilage movement and microfracture surgery kind of forms a scaffold for that. Problem is - you get the wrong kind of cartilage - you get fibrous which just wears right off.
You're thinking brake pad, which is the wrong mental model - it's more like lubricant - hyaline cartilage (the good stuff) while technically "solid" tissue, is super slick, like a good lubricant (or engine coating if you want a more direct analogy) and that is what is extraordinarily difficult to replace once gone.
I've been watching with some interest (my left knee has been going out for about 5 years - I've tried not to baby it, but I avoid doing too much extra damage to it - I'm still young) - the progress of a product by an Israeli company - it's a biphasic implant that is installed via a form of microfracture surgery - it's organic coral based, and it encourages bone growth underneath and hyaline cartilage growth over the top, with or without lesions, with or without bone loss. It's slowly but surely making it's way through U.S. trials.
Cartiheal's amazing Agili-C
I might be able to run again some day.
This post was edited on 2/19/18 at 7:45 pm
Posted on 2/19/18 at 5:44 pm to SabinBear
Yeah...that would be a ROCKY recovery.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 5:45 pm to SabinBear
We don’t need your cutting remarks around this joint pal.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 5:50 pm to SabinBear
Just put a little Temper-Pedic pad in there
Posted on 2/19/18 at 5:56 pm to SabinBear
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Knee Replacement seems OVER THE TOP for reduced cartilage...
As complicated and as scary as it sounds, it has a very high success rate. Ortho surgeons do dozens of them every day in Baton Rouge.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 6:10 pm to SabinBear
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Knee Replacement seems OVER THE TOP for reduced cartilage...
It works, and works very well.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 8:53 pm to SabinBear
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When the cartilage wears out in the knee, it seems a "cartilage substitute" could be inserted and attached, kind of like getting new brake pads on the car.
Damn, somebody should have thought of that.
I’m gonna steal your idea, write it up, and get riyyyyach.
Look out Jimmie Andrews, I’m coming for you
Posted on 2/19/18 at 9:00 pm to SabinBear
The doctor was the boys mother.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 9:35 pm to SabinBear
Here is your alternative: ACI surgery
I dislocated my kneecap as a senior in high school, in the process I ripped off a ton of cartilage from the back of my patella. This surgery was recommended... Honestly, it seemed like it sucked, so I decided to do nothing. Scar tissue has since formed over my patella making it bearable to run, but I know my clock is ticking. Eventually I will have to get a knee replacement, but I am too young for it right now.
I dislocated my kneecap as a senior in high school, in the process I ripped off a ton of cartilage from the back of my patella. This surgery was recommended... Honestly, it seemed like it sucked, so I decided to do nothing. Scar tissue has since formed over my patella making it bearable to run, but I know my clock is ticking. Eventually I will have to get a knee replacement, but I am too young for it right now.
Posted on 2/19/18 at 9:39 pm to SabinBear
Embrace your cyborg fate...
Join the machine willingly and humans will get to keep taco tuesday.
Join the machine willingly and humans will get to keep taco tuesday.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 12:39 am to SabinBear
STEM Cell injection into the knee joint.
Supposed to regrow cartilage in the knee joint space and can be accomplished in one injection.
Supposed to regrow cartilage in the knee joint space and can be accomplished in one injection.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 7:43 am to SabinBear
I had a TKR on my Rt. Knee,but only after it quit working as a knee.It wouldn't straighten out.
I had 2 rounds of injections under my knee cap,where cartilage should have been,of something made from Rooster Combs.
It actually helped for a little while.
My Steel Knee is my good knee now.
Good luck.
I had 2 rounds of injections under my knee cap,where cartilage should have been,of something made from Rooster Combs.
It actually helped for a little while.
My Steel Knee is my good knee now.
Good luck.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 7:47 am to SabinBear
I basically have no cartilage in my knees. My doctor told me I'm too young for a knee replacement. (I'm 31) She said there is nothing we can do right now. Is she an idiot and should I see another doctor?
Posted on 2/20/18 at 8:25 am to SabinBear
I've heard recovery from knee replacement is usually quicker than a scope.
I don't know if that is true or not, but my dad and grandfather both had knee replacements and got back to walking around like normal quicker than I did after 2 scopes. But I will admit, they are both tougher than I am. They never get sick and have an amazingly high pain threshold and/or tolerance.
I don't know if that is true or not, but my dad and grandfather both had knee replacements and got back to walking around like normal quicker than I did after 2 scopes. But I will admit, they are both tougher than I am. They never get sick and have an amazingly high pain threshold and/or tolerance.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 8:42 am to SabinBear
Look into stem cell therapy.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 8:54 am to SabinBear
There's no money in the cure....doesn't matter what the problem is....money is in the maintenance
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